Page 54 of Fate Forever and Always

“Perfect, with you next to me. How about you?” I kissed her again before she could answer. Kissing Callie was my new favorite thing to do. I pinned her up against the wall. Just as I was about to pull away from the kiss, she did and whispered, “I want to make you feel good, Nick. Will you let me?”

I searched her eyes for any ounce of the hesitation I had seen over the last few days, and there was none. It was gone. She was just as sure as I was. I ran my fingers over her features. I was studying every inch of the beautiful face I had come to love so much. I was delicately tracing every freckle I had imagined kissing. Every laugh line that made her face just that much more beautiful. Then I looked into those hypnotizing caramel eyes again.

“You will have to show me everything. I mean, I get how it wo—”

She cut me off with a finger over my lips. “I’ll show you anything and everything, baby. We will go as fast or slow as we need to.”

She ran her finger down my body until she reached my cock and ran her finger over my tip, causing me to release a breathless groan.

“Fast, we go fast,” I blurted.

She kissed my chest and licked my nipple playfully. “Let's get washed up, and then we can go as fast as you want…on the bed.”

We spent the next few minutes hurrying to wash each other. It was taking everything in me not to make love to her in the shower. We toweled each other off in a hurry.

“Callie?” She looked up at me with sultry eyes. I ran my fingers through her hair. “You are sure about this, right? Because I’m nervous as fuck, and I want this to be perfect for–”

“Shh,” she put her finger over my lips, then leaned up to kiss me. “I am more than sure.”

As she led me to the bed, my skin heated to an uncomfortable temperature. I was desperately trying to swallow the lump of nervousness in my throat. Once we reached the edge of the mattress, she stood on her tiptoes to kiss my nose.

“Thank you,” she whispered.

I was breathing heavily, praying she couldn’t hear my heart pounding out of my chest. I was hearing it in my ears. The adrenaline was radiating throughout my entire body. “For what?” I breathed out.

“Waiting.”

She smiled up at me, kissed my lips softly, and lowered back onto her feet. She held her hands flat on my chest, almost as if she was waiting for me to move. The air between us was full of so many unspoken words.

I took a seat on the edge of the bed and started nervously playing with my sweaty hands. Sweat dripped down my foreheadas my heart pounded rapidly. I could lie to myself and say I was just hot from the shower, but I could hear my heartbeat in my head. This moment is something I’ve thought about a lot, and I thought I would be able to handle it with a little more finesse than this.

Callie positioned herself in front of me, discarding her towel and straddling me, all while maintaining eye contact. I slowly and carefully looked over her body. Before my eyes could even take her all in, she was touching me. She ran her hands down from my face to my neck and continued slowly down my chest. When she reached my torso, my heart felt like it might actually explode out of my chest at any second. Callista Adriana Diaz was naked and on top of me.

I ran my hands through her hair on the sides of her head. She leaned her face into one of my hands. “I feel like a fifteen-year-old about to cum from my crush's touch,” I admitted.

She smirked and giggled a little. “The first time probably won’t last long just because of the built-up excitement, but don’t be embarrassed because we will be enjoying each other all day in this bed so that you can make it up to me.” She pushed my torso back onto the bed and leaned down on me. “You have no say in the matter,” she added.

The thrill I felt with her leaning on me was unexplainable. I wouldn’t fight her about being in this bed, even if she wanted me to. I would spend the rest of my life buried deep inside her and doing nothing else if she would let me.

“I have condoms,” I blurted in my nervousness.What the fuck is wrong with me? Why do I need to be so weird right now?

She looked sort of surprised, but not upset. “You do?”

I cleared my throat. “I didn’t want to assume. I was just really fucking hoping. I always hope.”

She shook her head from side to side with a seductive grin on her face. “We won't be needing those.”

I sat up abruptly with wide eyes, catching her before she fell backward. “What? We have…Callie, we have to. I don’t want to get you pregnant…not yet, at least.”

That made her eyes go wide for a moment, but she recovered quickly. I would have missed it if I hadn’t been looking at her already.

She pushed my back down. “Nick, I’ve been on birth control since I was fifteen. I've been tested multiple times since the breakup, and you are a virgin. We have nothing to worry about.”

I winced at the word virgin. I mean, it was true, but it just felt weird to hear her say it. I believed I was the only man my age who was still holding out.

She continued, “If you want to use one, I’ll go grab them, but I think they are unnecessary.”

I pulled her down and kissed her deeply with all the passion I had pent up for this moment. My mind was racing with all the moments I'd dreamt of being in this position with her. Right as I was becoming overwhelmed with emotion, she started kissing me across my face and down my neck until she stopped with a nibble on my ear.

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